Youth's gay springtime scarcely knowing / Went I forth the world to roam-- / And the dance of youth, the glowing, / Left I in my father's home,

Was it always as now? This race I truly can't fathom. / Nothing is young but old age; youth, alas! only is old.

As an eagle whose plumes to the sun are unfurled, / Swept his hope round the heaven on its limitless wings.

There is no room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Take the world! Zeus exclaimed from his throne in the skies to the children of man--"take the world I now give; it shall ever remain as your heirloom and prize, so divide it as brothers, and happily live.

Zeus, who gives to terror birth, who the dreaded Aegis waves.

Father Zeus, who reign'st o'er all that in ether's mansions dwell, let a sign from thee now fall that thou lov'st this offering well!

Shyly in the mountain-cleft / Was the Troglodyte concealed; / And the roving Nomad left, / Desert lying, each broad field.

I've found great lord thy ring of gold, thy fortune truly knows no bounds.

This ring for me is far most dear of all this isle within it knows